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emphasize the choir as a concert ensemble. It was announced that the Choir would present the world premiere of Hungarian composer Miklós Rózsa’s major vocal piece, “The Vanities of Life.” Rózsa, a friend of Skones, was famous as a composer of music for Hollywood movies (“Quo Vadis,” “Ben Hur,” “El Cid,” “King of Kings”), for which he had won three Academy Awards. The premiere was part of the 23 October 1965 Homecoming concert. It was a critical success. Afterward Rózsa commented: “I am overwhelmed at

(Subject to Change): When: Fridays before football games from 6pm-7pm Where: MBR 322 Club Director’s Email: bliukkonen@plu.eduPLUtonic A CappellaDescription: PLUtonic is a student-run and directed a cappella group (they perform without instruments!). In 2021, PLUtonic made the shift from Tenor-Bass to a SATB ensemble to be more inclusive and allow any student to participate in a cappella on campus. The group strives to engage in the learning and performance of a cappella music. PLUtonic also aims to

Lecture to Ta-Nehisi Coates’s Between the World and Me” RHONE FRASER is a lecturer in the Department of English at Howard University.  He is a member of the College Language Association, the Dramatists Guild, and the Alice Childress Society.  His dissertation includes a literary analysis of the plays of Lorraine Hansberry and Alice Childress.  He was a playwriting student of Leslie Lee (1930-2014) who was former artistic director of the Negro Ensemble Company and he is writing a forthcoming article

the best known and most played composers of chamber ensemble works in our day. She is sought out for commissioned works, and the demand for both her new and established works grows continually.” Another colleague described her as a “double threat” as both performer and composer, and described her compositional style as accessible yet challenging. She has become an important voice, particularly for, but certainly not limited to, brass instruments. For her accomplishments and contributions to her

fabrication. The inscription reads: “Peace is deep in our roots, hop is high up in branches’ reach. Oh, we are not unmoved, unbuffeted unbowed – the wind and storm may leave us bend and scarred at times; we draw up strength from the richglad soil and raise ourselves up most when we bear up those trees nearby who need this strength, which is rained down as compassion and is poured out as grace on us in sunlight’s healing waves. So shall we stand, joyful, stretching forever upward to grow closer to the

Huck Honor Book; Burn Baby Burn, long-listed for the 2016 National Book Award,  short-listed for the Kirkus Prize, and a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Yaqui Delgado Wants to Kick Your Ass, winner of the 2014 Pura Belpré Author Award; The Girl Who Could Silence the Wind, a 2012 Bank Street College Best Children’s Book of the Year; Mango, Abuela, and Me, a 2016 Pura Belpré Author Honor Book; and Tía Isa Wants a Car, winner of the 2012 Ezra Jack Keats New Writers Award. When she’s not

South Dakota.Carl PhillipsCarl Phillips is the author of fourteen books of poetry, most recently Wild Is the Wind (FSG, 2018), and Reconnaissance (FSG, 2015), winner of the PEN USA Award and the Lambda Literary Award. He is also the author of two books of prose: The Art of Daring: Risk, Restlessness, Imagination (Graywolf, 2014) and Coin of the Realm: Essays on the Life and Art of Poetry (Graywolf, 2004), and he is the translator of Sophocles’ Philoctetes (Oxford, 2004). A four-time finalist for the

of Books. An electric guitarist as well as a writer, he has collaborated with the composer Garrett Shatzer on a blues-influenced piece in the art song tradition, At the Blinds, for which Greg wrote the text. Sung by the tenor David Saul Lee and accompanied by CityWater New Music Ensemble, with Greg on guitar, the piece premiered in November of 2014 at the Center for New Music in San Francisco and was recorded live. When he’s not teaching at PLU or at UC Davis, he lives in Creede, Colorado with